Archives Closed Schools T-Z: Tenth Ward School

Other Name: 10th Ward School; Tenth Ward Colored School; Coleridge-Taylor Elementary

Last Address: 13th and Green Streets

Year Opened: 1853

Year Closed: 1911

The Tenth Ward School was erected and opened in 1853.  Its student population were white children.  It became the Tenth Ward Colored School in 1911 when it became a school for black children.  The school's name was changed again to Coleridge-Taylor in 1913 in honor of English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.